Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-17
NOTED CROOKS.
RUFF MINER AND GEORGE CARSON
ARRESTED IN CHICAGO.
They Are Sank sneaks, sn4 Have Stolen
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars
Wanted Now teE Taking $500

wanted Now tcs Taking S4OO,
4 Boston special OF Che 18th saws /:
Georgia Carson aud Rufe Miner, two Of
the Smartcst bau& sncaks in the world,
We're arrested IN Chicago this morning
for robbins the Roxbary Gas!ight Com.
pany two 81 thrce weeks ago Of SiO0
Tho robbery WIS clcve'ly planned and
boldly executed with tho aid of female
confederate While the woman ENGAGED
the cashiers attention in his private Office
a carnage drove nv 20 The door, and Mr.
Seaves. the clerk, was requested to step
outside and take The gentloman's order,
for the latter was too lame 10 walk. The
man who had entered the Office apparent
~ went outside. but ne merely stepped
into the celIarway. During Mr. Sewers
absence he rined the money drawer of
shc safe of $50
The theft WAS discovered in fifteen
minutes. but no trace OF the robbers
could be found. The woman Joined the
men n short distance from the Office.
and all were driven Off The next day
Mr.. Seaver identified two pictures in the
roGues' gallery at Police Headquarters
Billy Burk, a famous bank sneak, and
either Louise Sylvan or one of the Der
rigan girls of New York.
Both Carson and Miner have long
record of bold crimes. They are New
York thieves and among the smaItest Of
modern crooks. Rufc Pine atlas Miner
alias Charles Rogers Is forty-nine years
old, passes readily for a respectable man.
and is credited. unlike the majority Of
thieves, with making money at his bust
ness of stealing. Usually he travels
about the country with three or four
thieves for companions, and picks out
the concerns to be worked. The habits
aud movements Of the clerks are watched
and carefully noted, and some day when
the Office is crowded and money is lying
around handy, or when there is only
single clerk, whose attention can he dis
tracted. the coniederatcs walk in. and
while two or three manage to engage
attention Pine makes away with the
money
Pine is n native Of New York, born il
the Eleventh ward, and. it is said, owns
considerable property in the city.
In 1880 Pine, who prior to that had
worked with "A couple Of friends, man
aged to bring together nearly all the
noted banE Sncaks in the country. and
after making known his plans TO them
they accepted his terms. Since then
the gang has made n tour Of the priuci-
pal cities in the United States. by which
they have realized large sum. His as
a IL. ,.
Many 0{i0s Red Headed jew, John
.Iourdan, Big Rice. Molly Matches, Wi
linn Burke aims John Smith aIlaS
Billy the Kid, George +. Carson aljqs
Little George, and Horace Hovan diia8
Little Horace.
The gang possessed great deal of in
fuence, and also considerable funds. and
whenever any of its members fell into
the hands OF the authorities his comrades
always managed 10 save him from con
viction. Since the gang was organized
Pine has received the lions share of the
plumber. the police say. He had hand
in the following robberies: First Ma
tional Bank of Detroit $50, 000 in cash
Mlddlotown Savings Bank, MiddetoWn,
Connecticut. 81, 800 in cash, an : bonds
worth S56, 900; Bank of Cohoes, New
York, bonds worth 100000, which
were afterwards recovered Brook
lyn post-ofiice, Paymaster DENIM
sons office. $1,000 in cash; Provi-
dence Gas Company's office, Providence.
II. l., $l00in cash Guarantee Trust and
Safe Deposit Company's vault. Phila-
delphia,. Pa. bonds worth S7l, 900 be-
longing to the Peoples Passenger Rail
road Company, of Philadelphia, Pa,
returned Rufus Rose. insu-
rance agent, Albany, s., 500; safe de-
post vaults. State street, Boston. bonds
worth So, 600 Bank of Baltimore, bonds
worth SD, 600 belonging to Wilson,
Dolston Il Co., brokers.
Pine was arrested III June, 1854, on
the charge of robbing the Commercial
Bank of Augusta, Ga, in March of that
year of $500. Three men were en-
gagged in the robbery, which was COM
mitted during business hours, and two
others were shortly afterward arrested
and sent to the State prison for seven
years.
Pine was arrested in 1879 for taking
part in the robbery of S32, 000 from the
First National Bank of Detroit, and he
was also one of the men who robbed the
Bank of Baltimore of SD, 600 on
November %, 1882. He was arrested,
but escaped the penalty of his crime on
legal tcchnicality. He also got the
credit of being implicated in the rob
berry of the Middletown Bank of $685.
600 i'll 1882. In 1882 he was one of
gang which stole ST, 900 worth of rail-
road bonds from a safe deposit company
in Philadelphia, and ID the same year he
assisted Jim Burns III robbing the
Brooklyn post-oflice.
Carson. alias Little George, has al
most as bad a record. He is thirty-two
wears old, aud associates with the smart
est crooks. He has travelled around
through the country and has had hand
in many large robberies. He has been
arrested in almost every city in the
United States and Canada, but has done
bnt little time in prison. He was run
ont OF this city several times by In
spector Houghton. His picture, like
that og Pine, IS III the rOgucs' album Of
every large city.
After their little gamc here last month.
it is said, the gang worked q similar
scheme at Buffalo on their way West.
Inspectors RoughtOn aud GarraShan 80
b Chicago tomorrow TO bring them 10
Boston.
GANEIx WEST VIRGINIA,